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Originally Posted by DaleDe
sounds like you should have bought an iLiad. It is much closer to meeting your needs. What you want would certainly cost much more as is indicated by the iLiad price. You don't get all those features for free.
By the way the SD card slot is SDHC already.
Dale
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I don't mind paying for a machine that helps me get things done--else I would never have popped for the Thinkpad X41, which is the platform on which I read most of my ebooks these days. The Sony reader is OK for things that don't have artwork, but I find myself grumbling about how small it is.
As for the Kindle's SD slot, most of the sites I see online indicate that while it will accept an SDHC card, it will only access 2 GB of storage on the card. Since I don't have a Kindle I can't test it, but 8 GB SDHC cards are now fairly cheap (~$50) and it's almost unforgivable that the external slot is limited to 2 GB. Many of the ebooks that I read are holograph scans of old books available from Google Books, and some of them are immense;
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1911) is over 85 MB all by itself. Put a few of those on a 2GB card and you're out of card fairly quickly.
It's not a bad gadget, but we're speculating here on how it could be made better. Size matters, in storage as well as display real estate. I wouldn't mind paying $1,000 for something that did what I need. I'm not a casual reader; reading is my life. Where reading is concerned, I don't compromise.